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HE that will beare with comfort the pangs of death,* 1.1 must labour to die in faith, that is, he must lay hold of the promise of GOD touching forgivenesse of
sins and life everlasting by CHRIST. All these (saith the HOLY GHOST, Heb. 11.13.) died in the Faith: viz. Abel, Enoch, Noe, Abraham and Sarah, all laying hold of the promise of life by CHRIST: So Iacob, Gen. 49.18. by Faith rested on the mercy of GOD, and by hope he waited for his salvation.
Thou shalt not be afraid of de∣struction when it commeth, Job 5.21. Death be it never so bit∣ter or painfull, shall not be a∣ble to seperate us from the love of GOD, Rom. 8.28, 38. St. Stephens violent death was but a sweet sleepe, Act. 7.60. Iohn 11.11. It is but a sleeping in JE∣SUS, 1 Thes. 4.14. The grave is called a bed of rest, Esay 57.2. CHRIST hath pul'd the sting out of death for all the godly,* 1.2 Esay 25.8. Hos. 13.14. 1 Cor. 15.55. and tooke away the strength of it by his death, Heb. 2.14, 15. The righteous hath
hope in his death, Pro. 14.32. it is gaine unto him, Phil. 1.21. for he is delivered by death from ma∣ny and great evils. 1. Sin,* 1.3 Rom. 6.7. He shall never offend GOD more: 2. Those miseries which fol∣low sin, Esay 57.1, 2.3. The temptations of the Divell Rev. 12.8.4. The opposition and vexati∣on of the world and flesh,* 1.4 Rev. 14.13. Eccles. 4.1, 2. It is to them obstetrix immortalitatis, a passage to immortality, 2 Cor. 5.1, 4. a sturdy Porter, that opens hea∣ven gates unto him.
See 1 Cor. 3.22. & 15.26. Psalm 37.37.
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a ful age, like as a shocke of corn commeth in, in his season, Job 5.26.
The number of thy dayes will I ful∣fill, Exod. 23.26. The Lord will pre∣serve him and keepe him alive, and he shall be blessed upon the earth. Ps. 4.
1.2. With long life will I satis∣fie him and shew him my salvation, Ps. 91.16.
It is a kind of blessing pro∣mised by GOD to his Saints, to be buried. 1 King. 14.13. 2 King. 22.20.
He which raised up the LORD JESUS, shall raise up us al••o by JESUS.
The Covenant of GOD is of force with us, as we lie in the dust of the Earth, Mat. 22.31.32.
He keepeth the very bones of his Saints, Ps. 34.20.
All that are in the grave shall come forth, they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, John 5.28, 29.
I will raise him up at the last day, John 6.39, 40, 44, 54.
See 1 Thess. 4.14, 16. Rom. 8.11. Dan. 12.2. Esay 26.19.
He that will k••ep•• my say∣ing, shall ••ot test of death. Iohn 8.51 that is shall not be over∣whel••ed by ••t.
Dying in the Lord. Revel ••4.13 is but a rest from labours, 2 Tim. 1.10.
That one happy pang which puls away the soule from the body, doth also pul away sinne both from the soul and body
God doth watch over the faithfull for good by his pro••i∣dence, both in life and death, Mat. 10.28, 29, 30 31. Psa. 72.14
2 Sam 25. In Christ shal all be made alive, 1 Cor 15 ••••punc; that is shall be rai¦sed by him at the resur∣rection.
The Cer∣ma••es call the Church yard Godsa∣ker, because the bodies are sowne there to bee raised again: and the Gre¦cians called their Church yards, or places of se∣pulture, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 dormitories, or sleeping places wher the bodies rest, expect∣ing the re∣surrection.